NAN reports that the verification committee last week uncovered more than 7,000 workers, including more than half of government house personnel as ‘ghost workers‘.
In a circular dated July 27, Nalado said that Yari had directed that payment of July salary would be predicated on the outcome of the verification committee’s work.
The circular entitled: “July 2012 salary”, had been sent to the offices of the Principal Private Secretary to the Governor, Secretary to the Government, Head of Service, and other relevant government organs for compliance.
The verification committee, however, ordered those workers not captured during the verification to come forward with their complaints.
Scores of workers who missed the exercise were seen at the secretariat on Wednesday scampering to sort out themselves.
The state House of Assembly passed a resolution on Friday directing the governor to rescind his decision to pay July salary to only those workers that had been verified.
The house said that since the final report had not been presented to the governor, it would be wrong to implement any portion of the committee’s recommendations.
The lawmakers also said that since those “ghost and redundant workers” had not been served with letters of termination the government had an obligation to pay them salaries until they received their sack letters.
